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Retreat from the Yalu by David Pentland. M19 self-propelled antiaircraft guns guns of the 82nd Battalion give cover to the M46 Patton tanks and men of the US Armys 2nd Division during their hazardous retreat south from the Yalu River, following the surprise Chinese winter offensive. |
Tankriders by David Pentland. Kursk, Russia, August 1943. Soviet counterattack by T34/76s and infantry of 3rd Tank Army on Orel. |
Julius Caesar Crossing the Thames, Summer 54BC by David Pentland. After an unsuccessful attempt to invade Britain the previous year, Caesar returned in force. Included among his large ranks was one Indian elephant, a beast unknown to his enemy, and as it transpired a dramatic psychological weapon which succeeded in breaching the Britons defensive position on the River Thames. |
The Steelhorse by David Pentland Polish Armoured train No.11, "Danuta", Poznan Army, September 1939. The Polish armoured trains such as "Danuta" were powerful weapons. They where considered state of the art having been upgraded in the 1930’s and made up of 2 twin artillery wagons an assault wagon and 5 TKS tankettes used foe scouting. |
Escape to the Elbe, Berlin, 3rd May 1945 by David Pentland. Following Hitlers death, the decision was taken by the officers and men of Sturmartillerie Brigade 249 to break out of the doomed capital. Shortly before midnight on the 3rd, what remained of the unit fought to the edge of the city at Spandau. By this time the brigade had been split into two elements, the first under Hauptmann Herbert Jaschke successfully punched their way out to the west. The second group was not so lucky, and its survivors fell into Soviet captivity. |
Black Prince - What May Have Been by David Pentland North German Plain, September 1945. The A34 "Black Prince", was a British experimental development of the Churchill infantry tank armed with a 17 pounder. Although 6 prototypes were built, the project was dropped in favour of the new Centurion medium tank. |
Guard Duty by David Pentland. Tscherkassy Pocket, Russia, 13th February 1944. The two Tiger Is of Feldwebel Heinz Gartner and Oberfahnrich Heinrich Rondorf, of Heavy Tank battalion 503 destroyed a surprise Soviet counter attack by some 15 T-34s from Chishinzy village. By now the relief force Panzer Regiment Bake of which they are part were only a few days away from opening a corridor to the Korsun pocket. By the end of the war these two tank commanders had destroyed 103 and 106 enemy tanks respectively. |
Warsaw, September 1939 by David Pentland. Polish 7TP (Twin Turret) light tank of Captain F. Michalowski's training company breaks out from the street barricade to counter attack German reconnaissance elements. |
Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. A handful of Tigers from 2nd Kompanie SS Schwere Panzer Abteilung 101 halted the advance of the British 7th Armoured Division, The Desert Rats, outside the little Norman village of Villers Bocage. Prowling through the streets of the village, the solitary tank of Hauptsturmfuhrer Michael Wittmann knocked out most of the 4th County of London Yeomanry's regimental HQ Stuart and Cromwell tanks, before falling victim to a 6pdr anti-tank gun. Wittmann survived the battle but was killed a month later on August 8th 1944. |
Looking for Trouble by David Pentland. Kursk, Russia, July, 1943. T-70 light tanks of 2nd Tank Army on a reconnaissance patrol near Ponyri-Goreloje. |
After Kasserine by David Pentland M3 Lee tanks of D Company, 2-13th Regiment, US 1st Armoured Division, Thala, Tunisia, 22nd February 1943. Following the disaster for the US Army at Kasserine at the hands of Field Marshal Rommel, the Axis forces were eventually stopped by the remnants of the US 2nd and 3rd Battalions, 13th Armoured Regiment 1st Armoured Division at Thala. After the battle Rommel singled out the 2nd battalion for their stubborn and clever defence of Sbeitla. |
David and Goliath, Vernon, France, 27th August 1944 by David Pentland. Leading 30th Corps assault across the Seine at Vernon, 43rd Wessex Division gained an initial foothold on the east bank. Heroic efforts however by the Royal Engineers of 71st, 72nd and 73rd Field Companies, succeeded in constructing a Class 9 Bailey bridge (David, shown left) and a Second Class 40 bridge (Goliath, shown right) Despite constant enemy fire this amazing feat was achieved in only 2 days, and allowed 15/19th Hussars Cromwells and 4.7th Dragoons Guards Shermans to cross just in time to repulse a serious German counter attack by Tiger IIs of SS Panzer Abteilung 101. |
The Battle for Norway by David Pentland. In this, the first true parachute operation of World War Two, German paratroops of 1st battalion Fallschirmjäger Regiment 1, proved themselves an invaluable component of Blitzkrieg. First in the initial stages of the campaign by seizing airfields and bridges in Norway and Denmark, and subsequently by supporting army ground forces engaged at Narvik. |
Cross of Iron, Russia, Summer 1942 by David Pentland. German infantry take cover in a shell hole during the blitzkrieg through Southern Russia towards Stalingrad. |
Assault on Voronezh, Russia, 2nd - 7th July 1942 by David Pentland. Sturmgeschutz IIIF of Stug Battalion Grossdeutschland, and supporting infantry from GD Regiment 1 battle against Soviet forces defending the strategically important city of Voronezh on the Don. Combined arms operations such as this proved the value of the assault gun, which took a terrible toll on enemy armour and men alike. |
Midwinter Morn by David Pentland M20 Utility Cars on reconnaissance, Ardennes, 24th December 1944. The lightly armed US reconnaissance units were in constant use during the Battle of the Bulge, even on Christmas day they were employed trying to establish current German locations. |
Action at Arras, France, 21st May 1940 by David Pentland. 88mm AA guns of the 23rd Flak Regiment, used as anti-tank guns by orders of Rommel himself, are shown firing on British Matilda tanks of 4th/7th Royal Tank Regiment. |
The Last Battle, Berlin, 30th April 1945 by David Pentland. Unterscharfurher Karl-Heinz Turk of the Schwere SS Panzerabteilung 503, in one of the units few remaining Kingtigers, defends the Potsdammer Platz along with elements of the Munchberg Division against the rapidly encroaching Soviet forces. |
Operation Supercharge, 4th November 1941 by David Pentland. British MK1 Grant tanks of the Staffordshire Yeomanry 8th Armoured Brigade, 10th Armoured Division, breakout from El Alamein. |
On the Beach by David Pentland (P) American troops storm Omaha Beach during the Normandy Landings, 6th of June 1944. |
Tank Killers by David Pentland. Bastogne, Ardennes, Belgium, 23rd December 1944. Beleaguered U.S. Paratroopers of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division, defend against a German armoured attack. |
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